Respite from the rat race? Not likely
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Media literacy; an underrated superpower
One thing we have learned or have had reinforced from this pandemic is our need for human contact. And the important role of technology in communicating with others. There’s a skill to communicating efficiently and properly using technology. Even a basic text can be misunderstood without the element of facial expression; hence the creation of emoticons to assist in getting a message across.
RAMBLING VINES
For the first time in the history of our nation we are about to be faced with a budget of over a trillion dollars. That’s a “1” with a whole bunch of naughts behind it! I really can’t work up much more apprehension over a trillion than I can over a million...they are both beyond my wildest expectations.
From The Courier Files 1899
Captain Joe McCracken left last night for New Orleans to attend to his large shipments of square timber which went down the rivers a few days ago to the city, from which point they will be located on ships for Liverpool. The Captain will not take the passage on ship at New Orleans, but will return to Corning and go to New York City or Montreal, Canada and embark for Liverpool. A very good crowd was here Monday from neighboring towns, this being the time for letting the contract for the erection of the new brick courthouses. The passenger train due at Corning at 9:46 Sunday night was wrecked just South of Tip Top, Mo. by a calf getting in front of the engine, which was ditched, and several cars were badly wrecked. The firemen was instantly killed and the engineer seriously scalded. This paper has been conducted under different names and in various towns of Clay County, continuously for about 25 years, having been located in Corning, Rector and Greenway at different times. With this issue The Courier completes its 15th year under the present name and has been under the same management for six years. Long Brothers say they will make a big barbecue and celebration take place at the school grounds, on July 4th, in spite of all opposition. O.C. Harb received an order Monday for 400 loaves of bread and 20 cases of soda for the big barbecue at Pitman the 4th. The Board of Directors has employed as teachers in the Corning public schools for the ensuring year, besides J.K. Browning of Piggott as Principal, Mrs. Anne Cooledge, Mrs. Ada Prichard and Miss Sue Hill of this place and Ora Edwards of Brookings. It is pretty generally understood that Judge Felix G. Taylor will be in the race for Congress, of course no one knows yet what opposition he will have, but the Judge is a popular man and he knows to conduct a campaign. The glorious 4th of July was celebrated at the school house grounds in Corning in spite of the fact that a great many of our citizens spent the day at Pittman, Jonesboro and other places where big celebrations were to be held. The celebration was one of the most orderly in the history of Corning, there was no infractions of the law, or casualties. At noon, a barbecue was spread on the grounds by Long Brothers, the butchers, who dispensed barbecued meats, bread and pickles to the hungry crowd at 20 cents a meal. Governor Jones returned from Pitman in time to deliver a short but patriotic speech in the evening before he left on the 9:46 train for Little Rock. The Corning band being employed at Jonesboro, the management of the barbecue secured the services of the negro brass band of Poplar Bluff which furnished music for the day.
Car insurance and Covid
My topic to write about this week was liability insurance violations. After getting the latest statistics for Covid-19 this morning over my morning coffee it dawned on me that there are great, and perhaps illogical, discrepancies in the way that car insurance and Covid impact our daily lives.
Peach Orchard News
Hello everyone. We had a nice snowfall. Peach Orchard ended up with two inches. It stayed around for three days until the rain began. I believe if it would have not rained, we would still have snow on the ground now. The old timers always said, "How many days the first snow stays are having many more snow days be coming your way." So, I guess we will have three more times it will snow before Spring. This was the first year I did not run barefoot around the house in the first snow. I had twisted my knee and decided I better not chance it. I have to admit it was feeling very warm underneath my warm cozy blanket to get up and go barefoot in the cold snow. So, I guess I'm just a wimp this year or getting older and wiser. But it is a fun family tradition that has been going on for generations in our family. And this was the first year that I can remember that I didn't do it. Maybe I will catch the next one.
The World I Grew up in
I sometimes hear a song, “It was 19 something.” He sings about Star Wars, PacMan, and Stretch Armstrong toys; about bell bottoms and 8-track tapes, and the death of Elvis. It was 1970 something, in the world that he grew up in.
Teachers Aren’t Superheroes (And That’s a Good Thing)
Do a quick Google search with the words ‘teacher superhero’ and you will find hundreds of graphics of teachers wearing capes, websites and influencers bearing these words, and countless articles about how to be that teacher who can save all of their students. How many conference keynotes and educator books have you seen with the premise that a teachers’ primary mission is to lay it all on the line for their students?
Opinion
The good people at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan for decades have tried to keep us on the straight and narrow because someone should at least try.
JOE JETT
Budget Hearings to begin January 11 The Arkansas General Assembly will convene for the 2022 Fiscal Session on Monday, February 14. Preparations for that session will begin in the next two weeks.